The problem wasn't the finish quality. The manager describes frequent turnover and why repeating the smallest room size across the whole house can weaken the result.
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DON’T Build Your Padsplit Rooms Like This!!!
A PadSplit renovation can look good and still have rooms people don't want to keep renting. We discuss an example built around uniformly small bedrooms.
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[00:00] That's a great question. So, I had one buyer, very well-versed, very experienced um investor. He goes in and guts the whole entire house. Starts with just blank slate, bathrooms, kitchen, all the 2x4s, trust, everything kind of just comes down. And so, he made eight rooms, 80 square feet. And that's the
[00:20] minimum of pad split. You got to have at le your shortest wall has to be 7 ft, >> right? >> So, you can't have a six foot wide room. And um you got to have at least 80 square feet. And so he made 88 80 foot rooms and he says, "What do you think of my house?" I said, "You renovated very
[00:35] nice. You I mean, he did everything right. You know, he even made an electronic clock. He's definitely got some background. You know, put outlets in the ceilings for to plug in, you know, like a camera in the common area. And you, you know, electronics are in locked into one room." And I mean, he
[00:49] did it great. But I said, "Next time, don't make every room 80 square feet." He's like, "Okay." And he bought two more houses and did the exact same thing. Can he's got a high turn
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